The $1.5 million advance fee and all proceeds from her book "I Want to
Grow Up, I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to go to Boise" was donated to
cancer research.
Her father also suffered from polycystic disease, and died when she was
9.
Dubbed by Life Magazine "the Socrates of the ironing board".
Mother of Michael Bombeck.
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 53-54.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.